Jalal Talabani Quotes
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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My love for my wife Roya is so intense that I gave up alcohol. My love for my father was so great that when he made me promise him that I'd lose weight, I did and lost 167 kg.!
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It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
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My music is definitely considered the kind of music you play in your car, that gets you from Point A to Point B. So, I understand how important it is to press up my music and give it out, hand-to-hand, just as much as it is to give it out on the Internet.
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As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
